A project for the show ECCENTRIC EXERCISE (part 1), with the artists Sara Bichão, Ivana Ivkovic, Tuguldur Yondonjamts and Guy Goldstein. Curated by Henriette Noermark.

2013

Text by the curator Henriette Noermark:

In her practice, Bichão looks to construct images with symbolic meaning where poetry’s ancestral rhythm comes together with personal
idiosyncrasies. For Eccentric Exercise – International Contemporary Drawing, Bichão has created a work about the self, about space and
abstraction as a language. Plant was developed by the circumstances of having to travel from Lisbon to Copenhagen subsequent to the
curatorial dogma that every piece of art had to be transported by the artists, folded or rolled. The work draws on geometry as part of a folding
/ unfolding method, fixing the rigid rules of the rational and structural. At the same time, it reveals a mystery which for Bichão is a notion
of existence: in the dark, without coordinates, a hand made circle painted on the work, projects light from its center. As the work is on the
ground, one can feel its own scale and compare it with the mental space, projecting the self as a mirror, atracted for that nuclear form. Plant
is thus in constant change and the viewer will be exposed to its kaleidoscopic and mutating creativity when entering the back room - when
exposed to light, it seems a large and white plane full of bends, all the geometric possibilities crossing the center. When experiencing it in full
darkness, it turns the core of your position there; it leads you, connecting both the notions of self-existence and the universal. True to her
aesthetic references and her understanding of art as the result of an autogenic process, Bichão creates metamorphic works with a magic spark,
not necessarily shaped by a rational, causal or narrative order.